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This French science fiction short film was made in 1962 and sticks to this genre as we are shown the tests on time travel as the man being tested has research equipment attached to him like tubes coming out of his eyes and the setting is underground as the film is set in a post-nuclear wartime world helps to establish this atmosphere of science fiction as images of war torn France are used to Portray the destruction of nuclear weapons.The film uses a number of still images in the film using a photo-assembly and rarely uses any video because the narration is provided by a narrator explaining the tale of what happened and telling the storey of a prisoner being experimented on, the colours used throughout the film are black and white. The narrative structure uses conventions such as how the narrative comes into full circle, but their resolution is not new, but an ending as the film begins with an underground prisoner experimented on as the scientists investigate time travel to see if they can fix the nuclear war that occurred in a totally degraded natural life and our main character known as the prisoner who travels back In time, and for the future. However, we can see some of Todorov's hypothesis as the disruption of the plot may come from the main character finding out that he is going to be executed by his prisoners, and the outcome is that he escapes into the past and that he is murdered by a prisoner who pursued him and kills him. Event that scarred the main character of his own death when he was younger.